Isaac Newton Quotes

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

What goes up must come down.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Genius is patience.

Talent was not rare

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.